Unless the thought of spending a few months in county jail really curls your toes, don’t curse at a judge.

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Octavia Nicole Briggs, 22, of Grace Avenue, Burlington, learned this lesson the hard way Monday when she unleashed a torrent of vulgarities at Alamance County Chief District Court Judge Jim Roberson.

The judge found her in contempt of court not once, not twice, but three times. Briggs was ordered to spend 90 days in the Alamance County jail for causing a disturbance and using offensive language in court.

The incident began before court was in session.

Deputies in the civil district courtroom where the incident occurred said that Briggs appeared in the Alamance County Civil Court Annex on Monday for mediation in private warrants she is involved in. She allegedly created a disturbance there and Deputy Michael Dean Culler, a bailiff, escorted her into the courtroom where she began cursing at bailiffs before Roberson entered.

Documents filed with the clerk of court’s office said Roberson asked Briggs to remain quiet. Instead, she cursed at the judge, telling him to perform a lewd act. Roberson found her in contempt and issued a 30-day sentence, prompting her to repeat the expletive.

At that point, Roberson found her in contempt again, ordered Briggs removed from the courtroom and issued another 30-day sentence.

“Again, while she was being removed from the courtroom and was still within hearing of the entire courtroom,” she repeated the offensive phrase.

“She called him the foulest name you ever heard. I don’t think anything would have stopped her. I think the judge could have kept on and put her in jail for a year and it wouldn’t have mattered to her,” said Deputy Victor Tripp, a bailiff in the courtroom.

Briggs’ tirade didn’t end when she was taken into custody.

She was charged with injury to real property, damaging a glass window of a door there, Culler wrote in warrants.